Richmond Reds: Bloomington

Document print for the Bloomington

fabric in my Richmond Reds collection

for Moda

The original print here was a shirting print done in two shades of red on white, a very common

19th-century style found in clothing and quilts.

If you compare the original to the reproduction

you will notice several differences. We toned

down the shades so this small print would

fit in with the larger prints in the line. We call this

colorway "Aged."

We also changed the figure's set. The original was

a directional print. The leaves all went one way.

This directionality is not often desirable in patchwork

or clothing construction. For a garment one has to 

"buy extra fabric," as the patterns always warn. 

Fabric has to be wasted if the prints have to go one way as in the stripe above. In a quilt one has to plan for the directionality. Non-directional prints are generally more useful.

Why Bloomington?

Another pretty name. Here's Bloomington, Indiana

in the mid-19th-century.

Denniele Bohannon has used the Rebel Red

colorway for the background of this experiment

in 3-dimensionality. She's also used the other two

colorways as mediums and lights.